Last night like many other nights, I climbed on to the roof to watch the stars after a cloudy day, as I lay there observing the firmament…a little thought caught my attention.I wondered if anyone had ever looked up at the universe and started comparing which stars were right and brighter and which ones were wrong and uglier, or had even had the urge to rearrange the constellations because in that precise night, he didn’t like the angle they were in.Silly huh?

Yet we do that in our daily lives all the time…, we compare people with qualities that don’t really exist, the same way we we attribute the quality of brightness to the starts when in fact they all shine the same and some only appear brighter in comparison to others due to their proximity to Earth in contrast with the rest, we admire some people for their beauty when the truth is…their beauty only depends on who they are surrounded by to compare them to, and trying to rearrange the constellations angle sounds a lot like a human civilization that is always changing its perspectives, where 140 years ago treated blank people as slaves and now have one as the President.

So if our perception of comparison influences us that much, what else does it affect?
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